Every now and then you may have to block specific third parties from accessing your sites. There are plenty of automatic bots that crawl the Internet, for instance, and produce fake visits and site traffic. There's also spammers who leave links to shady Internet sites as comments to blog articles. Such things may greatly undermine your work, because nobody likes to visit a website with tons of fake comments, also the increased website traffic from both spammers and bots could create high load on the server in which your website is hosted, that could result in your site not working correctly. One of the best solutions in cases like this is to block the IPs that create the fake traffic, so as to make certain that the visits to your site are authentic.

IP Blocking in Website Hosting

Our IP Blocking tool is part of the ground breaking Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all website hosting accounts. It will allow you to block addresses with several mouse clicks. No coding skills are needed, as you will use an intuitive interface - you just have to choose a domain or a subdomain from a drop-down menu and input the IP address you want to be blocked. You'll be able to see all the IP addresses that you have added in the very same section and whitelisting any of them will take simply a click. If you notice that your site is being flooded by different IPs, you will be able to block an entire IP range also. This could be done by omitting the last number of the address. For example, if you wish to block all 254 addresses from 1.1.1.1 to 1.1.1.255, you simply need to type in 1.1.1. and leave the last spot blank .

IP Blocking in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites inside a semi-dedicated server account with our company and you would like to block one or several IP addresses sooner or later, you may use the easy-to-use blocking tool, that we have provided with our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks, you shall be able to block individual IPs or entire ranges, if needed. All you'll need to do is select any one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down menu, choose if the blocking must be valid for the root folder or for a subfolder that is part of the website, and then enter the IP address that you would like to block. For an IP range, you just need to omit the last octet or the last two octets of the address with regards to the size of the network you want to block. All the addresses that you have restricted will be listed within the same section and if you want to whitelist any of them, you shall be able to do it with just a mouse click at any time.